ABSTRACT
Analytic philosophers of religion and theologians do often borrow from Continental and existentialist works, especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Elie Wiesel's Night. Philo is the true philosopher and the opponent of natural religion. Hume's Dialogues is roughly in the tradition of Plato's Socratic dialogues, as Hume presents his philosophical musings on natural religion through the medium of the interaction of literary characters, namely the Judeo-Christian tradition. J. L. Mackie perhaps more notably than any other analytic philosopher, denies the validity of the free-will defense. Mackie considers Alvin Plantinga's proposal of the free-will defense as it is expressed in Plantinga's book The Nature of Necessity. Mackie takes up this suggestion and presses the question of whether a theist can hold in a logically coherent fashion both the existence of an all-powerful, all-good god and evil. In turn, Plantinga's most important contribution to the discussion of evil centers on theological direction was by engaging the resources of Christian faith.
